My first two putbacks into Solaris were a huge learning experience, and my respect for those who do this kind of engineering day in, day out grew immensely. I’d recommend the experience to anyone who needs a better understanding of the process …

• 4991763 getenv doesn’t scale
• 5105528 fix for 4915617 breaks simple multiprocess rwlock test case
• 5105683 fix for 4915617 should be kinder with uncontended shared rwlocks
• 6209711 thread error detection false positives possible with shared mutexes